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Title: THE FEDERALIST
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05 November 2003
Federalist No.
03-45
Wednesday Chronicle
CONTENTS:
The
Foundation
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Dezinformatsia
Sociocrats
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDATION
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
---Benjamin
Franklin
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INSIGHT
"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than
beauty." --John Ruskin ++ "I never failed
once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." --Thomas Edison
++ "Persistence and determination
alone are
omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the
problems
of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge
"One is defeated only when one
accepts defeat." --Marshall Foch
"Make a virtue of necessity."
--Geoffrey Chaucer
"Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
--C.S. Lewis
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing
worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he
does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at
being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than
himself." -- John Stuart Mill
"Clearly, a civilization that feels
guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to
defend itself." --Jean Francois Revel
"By trying we can easily learn
to endure adversity -- another man's I mean." --Mark Twain
"All I know
is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful
funny
articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor
increases."
--Will Rogers
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PATRIOT PETITION
Please sign a citizen petition to exonerate U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Allen B. West. Col. West was indicted last week on criminal assault
charges for the psychological intimidation tactic he used to acquire vital
intelligence from a captured enemy combatant in Iraq -- intelligence that saved
the lives of American soldiers facing imminent attack. We are asking Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to seek a quick resolution to this grossly misguided
criminal prosecution.
To support Lt. Col. West,
Link to --
http://PatriotPetitions.US/colwest
(If you don't have Web access, please
send a blank e-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Each e-mail
sent to this address will be counted as one signature for the
petition.)
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UPRIGHT
"America will never run. ...And we will always be
grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders." --President George W.
Bush
"The failures of the Middle East are no more attributable to the
wickedness of the West than the triumph of the West is due to the weakness of
the Middle East. But comforting lies are humanity's favorite narcotic."
--Ralph
Peters
"The war over the war on terror has just begun." --Rich Lowry
"Iraq is not Vietnam. But you would never know that by listening
to the
Democratic candidates for president. With the possible exceptions of Dick
Gephardt and Joe Lieberman, the candidates recommend that America abandon Iraq
to either the terrorists or the UN." --J.D. Hayworth
"It has always
been in the interest of the federal government to encourage certain attitudes
and ideas that support our fundamental freedoms and the responsibilities
that go
with them. A viable, living republic depends on it. The government, however,
does not have the right to legislate what we must believe." --Alan Caruba
"It just doesn't get any better than this." --Rep. Ernie Fletcher,
Gov.-elect of Kentucky, the first Republican to hold the office in 32 years
++ "Tomorrow is a day to move on and put
this day behind us and get ready to accentuate the positive." --Haley Barbour,
former Republican National Committee chairman, Gov.-elect of Mississippi
"[O]ver the centuries, it has been
Christians -- conservative Christians who believe the Bible -- who have
done and
continue to do the greatest works of mercy and justice for the oppressed.
Jesus' words are true: When we let our light shine before men, not only is God
glorified, but people see the truth of Christianity." --Chuck
Colson
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DEZINFORMATSIA
The Leftmedia's "Old Black Magic": "Is Rumsfeld Losing
His Mojo?" --Time magazine headline over
article on the ongoing battles on the Iraqi front of our war with Jihadistan.
(Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's reply when queried directly: "And I guess
the answer is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't know enough
about mojo to know.")
But blackening conservative reputations: "Few
terms in the American language bring with them as much shuddering as does the
word 'blacklist.' Since its first recorded use in 1692, defined as 'a list of
persons who have incurred suspicion,' right through the McCarthy era it has
always induced shudders. ...When the blacklist was revealed, one of the many
widely written but not particularly widely read wacko Web sites [Media Research
Center's site] suggested that I personally should be added to it because I had
mentioned the story of the list just here on television on the show." --MSNBC's
Keith Olbermann, using a story on the NRA's listing of anti-gun celebrities to
also tar MRC.
This week's "Leftmedia Machiavellian" Award: "Six
months,
that's how long it's been since we all watched that statue of Saddam Hussein
fall. Six months since Operation Iraqi Freedom brought down the regime in
Baghdad. But victory looked a lot different in the streets of Iraq today, with
more violence and more deaths and with anti-American sentiment continuing to
grow.... Listening to the President today, he seems to think that this
policy in
Iraq is working. Given the repeated attacks there, how can that be?"
--Substitute CNBC anchor Dawn Fratangelo
This week's "Leftmedia
Disorientation Disorder" Award: "And there has already been a sort of little
predictable flap with sort of right-wing pundits saying that you've made the
show way too liberal. And I gather it's being somewhat re-edited to
accommodate
some of those complaints." --CNBC's Tina Brown interviewing CBS's Les
Moonves on
the now-pulled miniseries hit piece "The Reagans" -- touching on "a sort of
little predictable flap" from the Right.
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SOCIOCRATS
Waving the red flag: "I still want to be the candidate
for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George
Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats." --Demo
presidential contender Howard Dean ++
Replies from the "Thundering Herd of Jackasses": "Some of the greatest civil
rights leaders, white and black, have come from the South. To assume that
Southerners who drive trucks would embrace this symbol is offensive." --North
Carolina Demo Sen. John Edwards ++ "If I
said I wanted to be the candidate for people that ride around with helmets and
swastikas, I would be asked to leave." --Al Sharpton
++ "Every Democratic candidate for
president needs to condemn the divisiveness the Confederate flag represents."
--Wesley Clark ++ "I would rather be the
candidate of the NAACP than the NRA." --Massachusetts Demo Sen. John
Kerry
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
This week's "Chronic Villagitis" Award: "I want him
[George Bush] paraded in handcuffs outside a police house as a common criminal
because I don't know if there's a greater crime than taking people to war based
on a lie. ...I honestly believe they are putting their toe in the water to see
if people will go for martial law. After 9/11 we had hundreds of
Arab-Americans
rounded up and put in prison with no charges. You know, there's an
undercurrent
of feeling that we may not even have an election next year. If there is
another
9/11 a justification may be used to call it off and install martial law."
--Michael Moore
This week's "Village Victimitis" Award: "I am taking
the time out of my very busy rock and roll life to write you this letter. ...I
as a taxpayer have to get busy earning money to help pay off the latest $87
billion dollar addition to the national debt." --Natalie Maines of the Dixie
Chicks
This week's "Social Entropy" Award: "Alright. [Expletive
deleted] compassionate conservatives." --Tim Robbins taking the bait from Craig
Kilborn's challenge, "Use the words 'compassionate' and 'conservative' in the
same sentence while being neither ironic nor scornful."
This week's
"Gender Disorientation" Award: "Your presence is a welcome sign for those
people
to be brought into the center.... You cannot imagine what an honor it is
for you
to have called me." --Rt. Rev. Vicky Gene Robinson, on his consecration as an
Episcopal bishop
Sometimes they get it right: "The sheer volume of
randy behavior has become so deafening on sitcoms, you might think we were
victims of a plot to drive us all to abstinence by making us equate sex
with bad
comedy." --USA Today television critic
Robert Bianco
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SHORT CUTS
"Sure, in 1992, with the Cold War over, after about 45
years, Americans thought they could give themselves a breather with a slick,
draft-dodging, all-promising Democrat from the New Class. And in the 1990s we
had our holiday from history." --Jay Nordlinger
"The city [of
Washington, D.C.] is involved in an eternal love affair with itself." --Dick
Armey
"The Iraqi people are grateful to America and are optimistic
about their future -- which means they have nothing in common with the
Democratic party." --J.D. Hayworth
"Pundits rarely go to church
and are
almost always too busy to go to war themselves." --Wesley Pruden
"Any
ideology can probably be described as a systematic way of misunderstanding the
world." --Fred Reed
Jay Leno....
There's a new report saying that the disease that President Franklin Roosevelt
had may not have been polio. How bad was his HMO? Getting the test results
back 58 years after you're dead. "Good news Mr. President, you might not have
had polio." .... It came out today the
economy grew at a 7.2% annual rate in the third quarter, which is the strongest
pace in 20 years! Which is great news. Unless you're a Democratic
presidential
candidate. Then it's horrible news. ....
Are you following this? The city's on fire, the earth is
shaking....
If you're not familiar with this sequence of events, I think the next one is
locusts. You might want to check your Bible. ....
Yesterday they said the fires may be the work of arsonists. And
today President Bush told reporters, "It is wrong to hate all followers of
arsonism just because a few arsonists have done something
bad."
David Letterman.... Top Things
Never Before Said By Wolf Blitzer: "For a hundred dollars, I'll mention your
name on CNN tonight"; "Have you seen Peter Jennings around here? That
@$#*&!
owes me money"; "You know, it's a really slow news day today -- you wanna knock
over a 7-11?"; "Saddam Hussein is in that Starbucks over there -- just keep it
quiet"; "Once I got drunk at the CNN Christmas party and let's put it this way,
the next day I woke up wearing Larry King's suspenders"; "Would you like to be
the one hundredth person today to touch my beard?"; "You didn't hear it
from me,
but next week we're attacking Sweden"; "I'm going on CNN in five minutes --
what's the Vice President's name again?"; "The Wolf is on the prowl,
ladies."
Argus Hamilton.... Don
Rumsfeld pointed out Thursday there have been major improvements in the
lives of
the Iraqi people since the fall of Saddam Hussein. There are hundreds of
newspapers on the streets. It isn't the first time they've had freedom of
speech in Iraq but it's the first time people may still be around to use it a
second time. .... President Bush conceded
Thursday that Iraq is a dangerous place. He said there could be a hundred
thousand U.S. troops still in Iraq by next Election Day. For any other
president, this could spell defeat, but then any other president could spell
defeat. .... Saudi Arabia is prepared for
the annual pilgrimage of millions of Muslims to Mecca for Ramadan. The
logistics are staggering. It's almost as bad as what Hope, Arkansas, goes
through each year when the comedians arrive for Bill Clinton's birthday.
.... Tom DeLay defended General Jerry
Boykin
for declaring that America is a Christian nation. No one else will say a
word.
Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it
turned out
that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
Lex et Libertas --
Semper Vigilo, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for the editors
and staff. (Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed
Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and
for the families awaiting their safe return.)
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